Destruction and construction are two basic forces that exist in nature, society and life at the same time, and have opposite effects, such as the external pressure and internal stress of the earth, the good and evil in social morality, the instinct of life and the instinct of death. If we regard one of these forces as a force for construction, then the other is a force for destruction. In the continuous development of culture, there are also two basic forces running through the development of human culture.

The development of culture is a process of continuous destruction and construction. From its internal point of view, there will always be a rising "heresy" that destroys the tradition, thus changing the original state and forming a new tradition, and the new tradition is destroyed by the later "heresy" and repeatedly promotes the development of culture. There are countless such examples in the history of Chinese and foreign cultural development, because the more conscious cultural creators have rebellious spirit, critical vision and destructive ability, and bear the dual mission of destruction and construction. For example, the appearance of Copernicus destroyed the concept of the universe in European religions, a large number of thinkers emerged in the Enlightenment destroyed the relationship between man and God in European traditional culture, and the rise of Nietzsche denied the existence of God with a completely rebellious spirit, thus making the destroyed European traditional culture form a new tradition after adding new cultural factors. From the external situation of cultural development, once two or more cultures in a closed environment are in contact, conflicts will inevitably occur, and conflicts will destroy the original state of both sides to varying degrees at the same time. With the deepening and expansion of the conflict, the destroyed part will be occupied by the newly added part belonging to the other side, and they will merge together to form a new cultural tradition different from the original tradition. For example, the Greek cultural tradition is that the Greek native culture and foreign culture have been conflicted and merged for hundreds of years, destroying the native culture and then merging with foreign culture. The formation of Greek cultural tradition shows that there is also a construction force behind the destructive power of a culture.

The destruction and construction of culture, two opposite forces, coexist in the development of culture, but always exist in different situations. From the perspective of self-study culture creation, the purpose of destruction is to build another building, just like destroying another building. However, due to the complexity of cultural development and the continuity and gradualism of the development process, the destruction and construction of culture can not be as simple as tearing down a building and building another one, but can only be destroyed in tradition and built in the process of destruction. Therefore, the destruction and construction of culture are the premise and cause of each other. At each stage of cultural development, the forces of destruction and construction are changing unequally or proportionally. From the internal situation of cultural development, when the destructive power and newly added cultural factors reach a certain number, a culture will be in a state of systematic disorder. With the further increase of quantity and the continuous recognition of new cultural factors, the destructive power will gradually be transformed into the constructive power, forming a situation that the more the original destruction, the more the later construction. When the power of construction is greater than the power of destruction, the disordered system will gradually turn into an orderly state until the old part is lost, the new part is absorbed, and finally a qualitative change occurs, forming a new qualitative culture different from the original. For the reality of the development of national cultures, this narrative is inevitably too simple. With the shrinking of the earth and the increasing and deepening of human contact and communication, a complex situation of mutual connection, mutual exclusion, interaction and interdependence has emerged in the process of developing into a new culture. Therefore, there is a great correlation between the cultural development of all ethnic groups, and the movement and change of destroying and building these two basic forces is a multi-directional dialectical relationship. The cultures of all ethnic groups are developing in the process of destruction and construction, and constantly gathering at a higher level. After a long historical stage and several levels of spiral rise, they will eventually form a world culture, and the formation of world culture is the premise for human beings to achieve the goal of * * *.

In addition to the cultural destruction and subsequent cultural construction caused by the war, large-scale cultural destruction and cultural construction are always accompanied by a great ideological emancipation movement. Without the Great Enlightenment, the traditional culture of Europe could not be shaken. This storm of ideological emancipation sweeping the world has caused great damage to European traditional culture, and then established modern concepts such as human rights, democracy and science. Some scholars call it the first ideological emancipation movement in the history of our country, which is a hundred schools of thought contending during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and its influence on the slave owner culture finally enabled the feudal culture to form. Without this ideological emancipation movement, it was only the awakening and gradual evolution of internal individuals (of course, it was also a weak destroyer and builder), and our cultural development lagged behind many years now.

With the development of modern science and technology and the movement and change of world trends, China society has entered a brand-new era of reform and opening up. The concept of market economy, democratic politics, etc. For example, thousands of huge waves have impacted all aspects of social life, causing large-scale destruction of traditional culture and making new culture face major construction tasks. Belief vacuum, moral decay, value confusion, blind behavior, internal out of control and other phenomena all indicate that contemporary culture has been systematically out of order, which is undoubtedly not a bad thing, but an inevitable stage for national culture to transform into a new orderly state.

Why is contemporary China culture in this state? The historical roots of this situation can be traced back to the embryonic period of commodity economy from the middle of Ming Dynasty to the Opium War. At that time, the social development situation made a large number of outstanding intellectuals break away from the normal state that old intellectuals respected and were superior to the past, and they had great doubts about traditional culture. Li Zhi's heresy thought and rebellious spirit of "reversing the Millennium" cannot but threaten the demise of feudal culture. He opposed dogmatism and hierarchy, advocated individual liberation and advocated the idea of equal talent. Huang's enlightenment philosophy of history boldly exposed and criticized the feudal autocratic view of social history. In his book Yuan Chun, he pointed out: "If a monarch is a monarch, the rights of those who benefit from the world come from me, while those who benefit from the world belong to me, and those who suffer from the world return to others. So that people in the world dare not be selfish and regard my personal interests as the public ... They regard the world as an untouchable industry that future generations can enjoy endlessly ... that is, killing the brains and livers of the world and dispersing the sons of the world, so as to enrich their own industries and say,' I want to start a business for future generations'. You got it, knocked out the bone marrow, scattered all the women and girls in the world, and took it for granted that' this is the flower of my industry.' "All this is caused by the replacement of the law of the world by the law of one family in feudal autocratic culture. There is also Wang Fuzhi's criticism of retro-ism and heroic historical view. And Dai's exposure of the evil nature of "killing people by reason" have shaken feudal culture.

Stimulated by the artillery fire of the Opium War, Gong Zizhen, Wei Yuan, Kang Youwei, Yan Fu, Zhang Taiyan and others boldly introduced western learning, and set off an ideological wave of changing the law into the past and carrying out social improvement. During the May 4th Movement, a large number of intellectuals held high the banner of democracy and science, pushed the wave of ideological emancipation to a climax, awakened the people, and the violent storm that overthrew Kongjiadian caused greater damage to feudal traditional culture. The civil war and War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression caused social unrest in China, and the destruction and construction of culture almost stopped. However, after the "Ten-year Catastrophe" ended, the undercurrent of generate once again formed a huge wave of ideological emancipation. With the development of communication technology and means of transportation, traditional culture has suffered the double destruction of external impact and internal awakening. Our national culture is in a period of fierce volcanic eruption and a period of new cultural germination and brewing.

Looking back, there have been two great ideological liberation movements and cultural revolutions in the history of our country: the first time is the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the second time is since the middle of the Ming Dynasty. The second ideological solution movement was in its infancy from the middle of Ming Dynasty to before the Opium War, forming the first wave after the Opium War, the second wave during the May 4th Movement and the third wave since the new period. These three waves are higher, deeper and wider every time, which strongly shake the foundation of traditional culture. Of course, there have been low tides and many microwaves in the middle, but historically, the first ideological emancipation movement sent slave culture to the guillotine, and it took hundreds of years for the feudal culture of the right to use to form. The feudal society in China has a unique and long history, which cannot be destroyed by the efforts of several generations. It is inevitable that the second ideological emancipation movement will be frustrated several times, and it takes great historical efforts to build a new modern culture. We have noticed the destructive forces in the development of contemporary culture and heard the calls of emancipating our minds and renewing our ideas. In real life, people's lifestyles and behaviors have changed greatly. Stock trading, futures trading, disco dancing, kissing, going to nightclubs, etc., show that foreign cultural factors have flooded in, and after fierce opposition, they have been recognized by traditional culture and become part of the formation of new culture.

In this period of great cultural destruction and construction, contemporary intellectuals in China must undertake the dual mission entrusted by history. Those intellectuals with rebellious spirit and critical vision represent the basic trend of contemporary cultural development. Culture is like a mountain system. Only after the old mountain system changes and moves can a new mountain system be formed. In this vigorous cultural orogeny, contemporary intellectuals in China can only be numerous cultural factors, large and small, but cannot become cultural giants or cultural masters in the history of China's cultural development, because the mountains of new culture are far from being seen, and the development of culture has not yet reached the complete construction stage that needs to be sorted out. However, outstanding contemporary intellectuals in China pay attention to cultural history, which is necessary in the stage of contemporary cultural development. They will play an indelible cadenza for the development of Chinese culture on the objective stage provided by history.